Selfies have become the catchall term for digital self-portraits abetted by the explosion of cellphone cameras and photo-editing and sharing services. вЂњThere is a primal human urge to stand outside of ourselves and look at ourselves,вЂќ said Clive Thompson, a technology writer and the author of the new book вЂњSmarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better.вЂќ But they are threaded together by a timeless delight in our ability to document our lives and leave behind a trace for others to discover. The self-portraits are worlds - and decades - apart. He calls himself the вЂњleader of the selfie movementвЂќ and each image is hypnotically the same - his grinning face fills the frame, and is usually accompanied by a bit of inspirational text. Winfield personally, but IвЂ™ve seen his face most days for the past few months, in dozens of photographs he shares on the social networking application Instagram. It reminded me of another self-portrait of sorts, one IвЂ™ve been watching evolve online of the mysterious Benny Winfield Jr. It was, for lack of a better word, a вЂњselfie.вЂќ

But the best part of the discovery was the slow realization that she was holding the camera herself. RECENTLY, I came across a great find in a Vermont antiques store: an old black-and-white photograph of a female pilot on a mountaintop, her aviator glasses pushed up on her forehead, revealing a satisfied, wind-burned face, the wings of her plane just visible behind her.

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